1. PROJECTO COMENIUS 1 Escola Secundária Camilo Castelo Branco Traditions of the month of December Work made by: Ana Machado, Elsa Florindo., Mélanie Carvalho, João Teixeira, Ricardo Costa

2. Estrela, no chão da Gruta da Natividade, marca o local do nascimento de Jesus Cristo. (Belém) Christmas Eve Comenius 2009/2010

3. The Christmas dinner We put the table on Christmas Eve Comenius 2009/2010

4. These are the traditional Christmas sweets : filhós, rabanadas, bolo- rei, chocolate trunk, Codfish balls, Vermicelli... Comenius 2009/2010

5. The traditional Christmas dinner is boiled cod,potatoes and vegetables basted with Portuguese olive oil and served with a good wine. In some regions people serve grilled or fried octopus with roasted rice. Comenius 2009/2010

6. Codfish balls Comenius 2009/2010

7. Rabanadas.

8. Vermicelli

9. Bolo-rei

10. Midnight Mass or Cock’s Mass This is a catholic tradition. Cock's Mass is celebrated at midnight because the most important events in the life of Jesus which gave foundation to the Christian faith occurred in the dead of night. The very birth and his resurrection occurred in the middle of the night, before the sun was born, and it is precisely this period that the rooster announces the end of darkness and the emergence of a new day.

11. Comenius 2009/2010